Dinners vs Fruitful LA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dinners
Discover dinner recipes with a fun, swipe-based matching system. Find meals everyone in your household will love, with ingredients and instructions readily available. Filter by diet, ingredients, cook time, and cuisine.
- Swipe-based recipe matching
- Household recipe approval
- Integrated ingredients and instructions
- Dietary and ingredient filtering
- Cook time and cuisine filters
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Cooking dinner is hard. Finding recipes shouldn't be. Introducing match-making for dinner recipes. It's the fun of Tinder, for your recipes. The app at a glance: - Swipe right on the recipes you like. Left on the ones you don't - Make the recipes you and your household all liked and matched to - See the ingredients and step-by-step instructions directly in the app - No scrolling through long blog posts and life stories to get your recipe - Filter recipes by diet, ingredient, cook time & cuisine - App is free to use! We do charge a one time fee to use filters to cover the costs on our end
Fruitful LA
Connect with your local community by buying and selling homemade goods, produce, and services. Support local organizations with a portion of your sales. Foster sustainability and build stronger neighborhoods.
- Buy and sell backyard produce
- Purchase local baked goods
- Support school sports teams
- Offer/buy lessons from students
- Donate sales proceeds to local organizations
- Promote sustainability
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Fruitful is a community-oriented app that allows users to strengthen their local community through productive activities, while simultaneously supporting community organizations. Users can buy (and sell) backyard produce, local baked goods, highlights from their school's sports teams, lessons from neighborhood students, and more! A portion of the sales proceeds is donated to a local organization of the buyer's choice. Our goal is to promote sustainability and foster stronger, more fruitful communities!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fruitful LA at none against Dinners's 15. Fruitful LA also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.0). Dinners's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 6). On price, rating, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Dinners sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Fruitful LA asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Dinners against 5.0 for Fruitful LA. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 6 respectively.
Dinners ships an update every 3 weeks, Fruitful LA every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dinners | Fruitful LA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Theodore Goodman | Fruitful LA, Inc. |
Customer experience
Dinners
Fruitful LA
In-app purchases
Dinners
- Sausage$1.99
- Asian$1.99
- Ground Beef$1.99
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- Mediterranean$1.99
- Chicken$1.99
- Italian$1.99
- Mexican$1.99
- Middle Eastern$1.99
- Under 30 min$1.99
- One pot$1.99
- Gluten Free$1.99
- Vegetarian$1.99
- Breakfast$1.99
- Vegan$1.99
- Dinner$1.99
Fruitful LA
No in-app purchases
